648 br. a, g. butlee on lepidopteea feom [nov. 7 



17. Chabaxes jocaste. 



c? . Charaxes jocaste, Butler, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 628, n. 21. 



5 . Charaxes achamenes, Felder, Eeise der Nov., Lep. iii. p. 446, 

 n. 729, pi. 59. figs. 6, 7 (1867). 



Zomba, Julj 1892. 



I do not see why the name C jocaste should be ignored, since 

 thousands of descriptions applicable to half a dozen species coming 

 from the same locaHty are allowed to stand. My description 

 characterized four species, of two of which the locality was estab- 

 lished, one being from India and the other fi-om Senegal ; both 

 species were well known under the names C.fabius, Fabr., and 

 C. jocaste, Boisd., MS. In the absence of any other known African 

 species, C. jocaste from Senegal ^^■as perfectly recognizable by my 

 description ; therefore it seems to me that, as a matter of fact, it 

 was sufficiently characterized and the name C. jocaste (as a matter 

 of principle) should supersede that of C. achcemenes. The object of 

 a description is not to glorify the author of it, but to render a 

 new species recognizable, and it is on this account that good 

 figures of_ new species (when named), although unaccompanied by 

 any description whatever, are recognized as claiming priority over 

 subsequent descriptions of the same species. It is immaterial 

 by what name a species is known, provided that the oldest name 

 by which it was recognized is retained. 



18. Chaeaxes guderiajsta, 



(S . Nymplialis guderia^ia, Dewitz, Nova Acta Akad. Naturf . 

 Halle, 1879, p. 200, pi. 2. fig. 18. 



d , December 1892 ; s 2, January 1893 ; S , Mipa Stream, 

 Mofwi, August 3, 1892 (B. C). 



The female approaches that sex of C. Hrkii, being crossed above 

 by a buff band which on the primaries is broken up, above the 

 first median branch, into two series of spots divergent on the 

 costal area ; the bluish-white discoidal spot of the male is also 

 represented by a buff spot. 



19. Ckaeaxes alladinis. 



2 . Charaxes alladinis, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 5, n. 3 (1869) * 

 Lep. Exot. i. pi. 10. fig. 2 (1870). ' 



cJ. Above very near to C hollandii (the Sierra Leone repre- 

 sentative of C. ethalion), but in outline of wing even more quadrate 

 than C. ethalion itself, the primaries having a much less arched 

 outer margin and the secondaries being shorter. Above blue- 

 black : primaries ^^^th the costa, basal fourth, apex, and outer 

 margin bronze green; two subapical obliquely placed unequal 

 greenish-white spots : secondaries with the costal area purplish 

 brown, the abdominal area, includmg the greater part of the 

 discoidal cell, clothed with brown hair ; external area and veins 

 greenish; a shining bronze-green lunulated stripe halfway be- 

 tween the cell and outer margin, only the last four sinuations 



